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I wrote the worst novel ever.


Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Tags: Ever Wrote Worst
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Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel.


Tobias Hill
Tags: Good Make Novel
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The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.


Bille August
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The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.


Jose Bergamin
Tags: Born Novel Poem
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.


Isaac Bashevis Singer
Tags: God Life Write
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.


Zane Grey
Tags: Great Today Novel
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You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.


Joan Didion
Tags: You Line Focus
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.


George Sand
Tags: More Life Than
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A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.


Mohsin Hamid
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A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.


Hilary Mantel
Tags: Should Book Novel
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.


Umera Ahmad
Tags: Two Write Year
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.


D. H. Lawrence
Tags: Things Only Play
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I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.


Tracy Kidder
Tags: About Wrote Novel
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With a novel, there is no hurrying it. You're constantly walking into the unknown.


Tobias Hill
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Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.


Robert Hughes
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.


Daphne du Maurier
Tags: First Person Must
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.


C. S. Forester
Tags: Work Know Most
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.


Edmund Phelps
Tags: Must Art Novel
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I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.


Sara Shepard
Tags: Up Find Part
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.


Andre Maurois
Tags: Great Really Life
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For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.


Hallie Ephron
Tags: Good Best Food
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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.


Lynn Abbey
Tags: Me Than Much
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I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.


Sadie Jones
Tags: Me Think Just
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I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.


Tom Sizemore
Tags: Always Going Lot
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.


W. Somerset Maugham
Tags: Great Been Only
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.


Rainbow Rowell
Tags: Out Never Before
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I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.


Monica Ali
Tags: Always Try Books
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When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.


William Gibson
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My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.


Maria Semple
Tags: Me Really First
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A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.


Mo Yan
Tags: Them His Should
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
Tags: Good Who Person
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.


Rose Tremain
Tags: Way Any I Can
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I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.


Peter Bichsel
Tags: Am I Am Wanted
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The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.


Nicholas Meyer
Tags: Me Thing First
I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.
Andy Weir
Tags: Time Free Wrote
Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
Nancy Kress
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
Hilary Mantel
Tags: You Very Write
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
George Saunders
Tags: Me Way Story
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A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.


Emma Donoghue